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Associated Historic Individuals
Allais, Maurice F. C.Blackett, Patrick M. S.
Blumstein, Alfred
Borsting, Jack R.
Caywood, Thomas E.
Charnes, Abraham
Cherry, W. Peter
Churchman, C. West
Cooper, William W.
Cushen, W. Edward
Dantzig, George B.
Deemer, Jr. , Walter L.
Derman, Cyrus
Dorfman, Robert
Duffin, Richard J.
Engel, Joseph H.
Ernst, Martin L.
Flood, Merrill M.
Forrester, Jay W.
Gass, Saul I.
Gaver, Donald P.
Geisler, Murray
Goodeve, Charles F.
Hess, Sidney W.
Hitch, Charles J.
Hodgson, Thom J.
Horvath, William J.
Isaacs, Rufus
Johnson, Ellis A.
Kantorovich, Leonid V.
Karreman, Herman F.
Kimball, George E.
Koopman, Bernard
Lathrop, John B.
Lev, Benjamin
Machol, Robert E.
Miser, Hugh J.
Mood, Alexander
Morse, Philip M.
Muckstadt, John A.
Murty, Katta G.
Nash, Jr., John F.
Page, Thornton L.
Pollock, Stephen M.
Proschan, Frank
Rice, Donald B.
Robinson, Stephen M.
Saaty, Thomas L.
Salveson, Mel E.
Sargent, Robert G.
Schrady, David A.
Schrage, Linus
Shortley, George H.
Silver, Edward A.
Steinhardt, Jacinto
Stone, Lawrence D.
Thomas, Marlin U.
Thrall, Robert M.
Tucker, Albert W.
Vajda, Steven
Woolsey, Robert Eugene D.